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Fender American Special Telecaster® guitars
Fender Custom Shop Texas Special Tele pickups are built to produce blistering hot output, along with noticeable presence and midrange. The nickel/silver cover on the neck pickup helps produce clear, warm Tele tone in true Texas fashion.
Richard Smith
I put these in my custom Pilar telecaster replacing the Lolar pickups that came with it. The Lolars were just too low output. I initially tried replacing them with Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounders, but found them to be too dark. These Texas Specials keep the classic tele sound and also provide good output for covering rock stuff too. Love them!
oltra
Reviewed in France on July 25, 2024
BonjourVoici ce qu'il y avait dans la boite des micros custom Shop Texas spécialévidemment, je les retournes, je serais peut être remboursé 10 jours après au minimum.Franchement c'est abusé !
Cliente
Reviewed in Spain on June 14, 2024
No compréis estas pastillas usadas, la pastilla del mástil es defectuosa, me ha costado la instalación del Luthier y te ofrecen un 10% como devolución parcial. Las voy a desinstalar y devolver ya
B. Kim
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2024
Purchased for replacing my old tele. There were few choices but wanted to have some higher output and tele sounds. It was meeting my expectation perfectly. Especially neck pickup sound was fantastic really different from my old pickup. So satisfied.
Leonard
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2023
I purchased these pickups at a significant discount through the amazon warehouse. I had a lot of trouble getting them working and after rechecking my wiring and soldering several times, I realized that I had not made any errors. Then I took a close look at the pickups and found the Bridge pickup had been wired backward. I de-soldered the wires from the switch and pot ground and reversed them. Now they work and sound great. I have no doubt this is why the previous buyer returned them.
Pavle
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 17, 2021
5++ Amazing Fender Telecaster PUs! This pair of TEXAS SPECIAL pickups remodeled my Telecaster guitar into something magnificent and unbelievable. I LOVE THEM!
Joel
Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2020
I can hear the difference why these Fender Custom shop "Texas Special" Telecater Pickups are rated one of the best. I replaced the original ceramic magnet pickups on a new Squier Affinity Telecater with this pair. The guitar tone went from black and white to full color and all in between thanks to the Alnico V magnets. Now I have a Telecaster! Don't let the ceramic magnet single coil cheap pickups on your entry level Strat or Tele hold you back any longer. Replace them with any brand pickup that has an Aluminium-Nickel-Cobalt magnet.
José Angel Martín Sanchez
Reviewed in Mexico on November 19, 2020
Tienen un sonido fantástico, hacen que mi Telecaster suene súper
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2019
I took my guitar to a local luthier to install and all the workers said the same thing, that the bridge pickup had zero signal. I knew something wasn't right when I opened the box to get the pickup out and the wires were all greasy and it felt like it was 10 years old and had played at many pubs. I still get weirded out even thinking about the oddly greasy wax that was on the wires. Sending it in for a refund but now I'll have wasted 3 months of my life trying to buy a Texas Special since I live in Australia and now I have to order another from somewhere else. Unless it comes sealed from the manufacturer, don't buy pickups online because they can easily just sent you some trash that was on their guitar for years and you'd think it's authentic because it has a Fender custom shop sticker on the back.
Marco Monaco
Reviewed in Germany on June 1, 2018
Diese Tonabnehmer werten jede Telecaster Gitarre noch einmal sehr deutlich auf! Super ausgewogener Klang mit viel Biss und Druck. Dabei sind die Texas Special Pickups wahre Alleskönner: von Vintage-Sound über Blues zu Rock ist alles möglich!
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2016
Installed the pickups according to original wiring scheme, not the one attached in the box. The bridge works fine, but the neck's output is 1/4 of what should be. Tried to connect using other scheme, compared all connections for old and for this pickup and it's is clearly faulty. Requested return.
Peter Gibbons
Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2012
I bought these almost on a whim, as I was looking for a project. I had an old Epiphone Tele clone that I never played anymore, so I figure it was a good candidate. I popped these puppies in to it and what a difference. These pickups sound incredible. The neck pickup is awesome for blues play. They break up just a bit if you really hammer down on the strings, otherwise it is a nice glassy sustain. The bridge pickup is really ballsy. Great for rock with some nice distortion tones. I play with a 5150 head, and I've never gotten such response from single coils like I have from these. They sound almost like humbuckers, while retaining the nice high end of a single coil. They're also dead quiet. Also amazing for a single coil. If you have a lifeless Tele these are a cheap way to breath life in to an old guitar.
Matthew Ratcliff
Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2011
I just installed these on my 2011 mim fender telecaster--so far I love the new sounds! These pick ups are very hot and twangy. The neck and bridge (top and bottom) positions have remarkably improved (the neck sounding deeper and 'chimey' and the bridge very clear and bright), but it is the middle position (on my 3 way tone switch) that has completely transformed (pulling the the deep and the bright tones together--a fantastic marriage of both sounds that is well balanced. It has also canceled the slight hum that was present when plugged up to my Vox ac15c1)!For those who decide to 'do it yourself,' the installation was not that difficult (from start to finish, it took about 2 hours). I recommend to those with little experience to youtube a few videos on how to wire this up to your guitar ( a few tips: adding flux and soldering the wires ensures an excellent connection. Also use heat shrink tubing so that your newly soldered wires are covered snug and professionally. And lastly before the install, make sure the pick ups test exact or close to their electrical output that the packaging lists ).I highly recommend these to anyone attempting to upgrade the sound of their mim fender or squier teles. I am now in tone tweaking heaven.Cheers!
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